Books: Intrusion in the Dust

A good many people in Hainesville thought they knew who was in the gang
that killed Nathan Hamilton's pretty wife and three other Negroes. But
smart people weren't saying. The Aycock boys and Bilsy Shoup were put
on trial for "intimidating a Federal witness"they had beaten up a
Negro who saw them cleaning their guns. But Bilsy and the Aycocks
pleaded self-defense, and they were acquitted, as everyone had known
they would be.

In Author Gordon's fictional echo, with alterations, of the 1946
lynchings near Monroe, Ga. (TIME, Aug. 5, 1946), two people weren't
content...